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=Chapter 8:The WAR for INDEPENDENCE=

At WAR with the HOMELAND Lesson #1

 * ==Fighting at Lextington and Concord (called all colonial leaders)==
 * 1) ==  ﻿ ﻿Second Continental Congress ==
 * Patroits sent a letter called the olive branch petition to king George the third repealed the intolerable acts
 * formed colonial army
 * Congress ask colonies send soldiers
 * Congress chose Goerge Washington as general
 * Second Continental Congress asked for money to support the new army
 * Words of Patrick Henry inspired unity among the colonists
 * Second Continental Congress stand for unity of the 13 colonies[[image:GW1782.jpg width="228" height="377" align="right" caption="Goerge Washington"]]

2. ﻿The Continental Army

 * army had first major battle
 * colonists drove the british back twice
 * many soldiers had no guns
 * some soldiers did not fight the way a europeon army would
 * with Washingtons help were made into the first colonal army
 * the contanental's went to battle with the powreful army in the world
 * the contanental army held there ground and were very very poor

3. ﻿ The British Advantage

 * The british army mostly made of skilled soldiers and hired soldiers and Native American allies some soldiers were Hessians
 * The british has problems such as getting supplies over the Atlantic Ocean
 * The british used there better fighters to take advanage
 * General Washington had no more than 10,000 soldiers
 * most of the americans enlisted in,or joined,the army for one year at a time
 * some of the continentals would go home to their farms at harvest time

The Decision for Independence Lesson #2

 * The colonists who thought that their problems could be solved without war starting preparing for war
 * 1) == The First Steps ==
 * Thomas Paine published a phamplet called "Common Sense"
 * In common sense he claimed King George III as a bully and ﻿quetion his authority to rule.
 * Thaimas paine thought people should rule themselues.
 * He called for a revolution for an change of goverment.
 * He suid the colonies should clut their tieswith the british goverment and set up their own goverment
 * over the time area of independence sounded good to many colonists and the Second Continental Congress
 * Thoms said the colonies no longer owed loyalty to king
 * Not all colonists were ready for independence
 * took a long time agree for all colonies on independence
 * 17 days to write Declaration of Independence

2. Writing the Declaration [[image:c-bostonmassacre.jpg width="240" height="215" align="right" link="http://www.britishbattles.com/"]]

 * Thomas Je﻿fferson wanted the colonists win for freedom
 * Jefferson planned the Decloration in several parts
 * First explains why the Decloration was needed,second part lists main ideas from colonists about goverment,
 * third part lists the colonist's complaints,last part jefferson wrote the reasons why the 13 colonies no loger part of british
 * On July 2,1776, Richard Henry Lee's idea about cutting ties with Britain was approved of without a single "no"

1.Churches and the war

 * Religion offected people view on independrce
 * Pete Muhlenberg was a Loyalist
 * Anglican church members supported the king
 * Quakers are against all war s

2.Women and War

 * Women worked for in inpendence in many ways
 * Women also took part in the war
 * Not all women were Patriots
 * Some women brought supplies and fought for the British

3.Native Amercians and the War

 * Some of the Indians fought the British and some fought the Patriots

Samuel's Choice Lesson #4

 * Samuel chose to help the Patriots
 * In the summer of 1776,General George Washington and the continental army was forced to retreat from Brooklyn as the British approached
 * Isaac Van Ditmis turned all of his property over to the army of the Contenental Congress in exchange for his freedom

Victory and Independence Lesson #5

 * After General George Washington's retreat